The Kennedy Center board just handed President Trump a huge win!

On Thursday, the board voted to approve of President Trump’s plans to renovate the historic center — including re-adding his name to the building.

This comes in spite of a prior court order preventing President Trump from doing so.

Eric Daugherty on X broke down the details:

NOW: The Trump-Kennedy Center Board has just voted to GREENLIGHT Donald Trump’s renovations, and to place his name on the performing arts center — despite an activist judge trying to block it

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Good! Trump is fully restoring it, the man deserves it 🔥

The sign would read: “The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, Restored and Renovated by President Donald J. Trump.”

A leftist judge will likely try to intervene again.

Ignore and renovate!

As you may remember, a rogue judge ordered President Trump’s name to be removed from the Kennedy Center earlier this year.

U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper’s order also blocked the center from being closed for the much-needed renovations project.

NBC News provided some additional background:

“A federal judge already rejected the board’s unlawful attempt to rename the Kennedy Center, and told Donald Trump’s handpicked board that its last closure vote was ill-informed and preordained. Today’s vote is more of the same, and a show of blatant disrespect to the courts,” said the lawyers, Norm Eisen of Democracy Defenders Action and Nathaniel Zelinsky of Washington Litigation Group.

U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper’s May order, which temporarily blocked the Kennedy Center’s planned closure last month, also asked that the board provide a financial plan to justify the decision to close the center. Keeping the smaller venue open would allow ticket sales for some events, including performances by the National Symphony Orchestra, which is the chief tenant of the Kennedy Center.

The orchestra has performed there since the early 1970s when the Center — conceived by Jaqueline Kennedy as a memorial to her slain husband — first opened.

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In recent years, under the baton of Music Director and Principal Conductor Giancarlo Noseda, it has been rising in stature — but its future is now uncertain because the Kennedy Center’s Concert Hall will not be available. A search for other venues in the area has been underway.

The Kennedy Center’s future has been in limbo for months as Trump moves to reshape the iconic art institution in his image, one of several major Washington, D.C., renovation projects.

After Trump named himself the Kennedy Center’s chairman last year and filled its board with allies, the board in March voted unanimously to close the center for two years for renovations.

Cooper’s order temporarily blocked the construction work and ordered that the president’s name be removed from the building, which it was in June.

He also said that the board could still ultimately close the center “should it come to this decision anew after independently balancing its multiple obligations to the Center in a prudent fashion.”

The judge also found the board did not have the authority to rename the center or add a name to it without the approval of Congress, which initially named it.

“The Kennedy Center’s organic statute makes crystal clear that the Center is to be named for President Kennedy, and it cannot bear any other formal name or public memorial based on the Board’s unilateral say-so,” Cooper said in his May decision.

“May the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts be renamed absent Congressional authorization? The answer, plain from the face of the statute, is no. Nor can any other individual be memorialized on the front portico of the building. Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it.”

But, in the end, President Trump won again!

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Today’s vote by the Kennedy board paves the way for the renovations project to move forward.

It will be closed for up to two years while the restoration takes place.

Even the New York Times is being forced to report on the victory for President Trump:

 

Ultimately, President Trump ended up securing an even sweeter deal after the activist judge tried to stop him.

You see, President Trump’s name isn’t just being added to the Kennedy Center building anymore.

Under the newly-approved renovations plans, an outdoor space at the center is also going to be re-named as “the President Donald J. Trump Plaza!”

ABC News reported:

The Kennedy Center board, filled with President Donald Trump’s hand-picked appointees, voted on Thursday to close the famed cultural institution for two years for renovations and to again add Trump’s name to the facade, Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty, an ex-officio member of the board, said in a statement.

According to Beatty, the front of the Washington building would read: “The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts Restored and Renovated By President Donald J. Trump.”

In addition, Beatty said, an outdoor space would be named “The President Donald J. Trump Plaza.”

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“This morning’s decision to close the Center and the surprise agenda item to put Donald Trump’s name back on the building was more of the same,” she said in the statement. “This latest development is a transparent effort to circumvent the Court’s ruling, and flies in the face of the statutes that Congress passed. I will continue to fight for this treasured national monument.”

White House assistant press secretary Liz Huston, in a brief statement in response to the board’s vote, said: “Under President Trump’s bold leadership, the Kennedy Center is on its way to becoming the finest cultural institution anywhere in the world.”

Leftists are bound to be outraged on this one!

But, truly, this is such a wonderful way to honor two iconic families who have contributed so much to our nation: the Trumps and the Kennedys.

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This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.

 

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